Author:Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937)

An American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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Novellas

• At the Mountains of Madness Written February–March 22, 1931, published February–April 1936 in Astounding Stories, 16, No. 6 (February 1936), 8–32; 17, No. 1 (March 1936), 125–155; 17, No. 2 (April 1936), 132–150
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Written January–March 1, 1927, published May/July 1941 in Weird Tales, 35, No. 9 (May 1941), 8–40; 35, No. 10 (July 1941), 84–121
• The Colour Out of Space Written March 1927, published September 1927 in Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 6, 557–567
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath Written c. autumn 1926–January 22, 1927, first published in Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Arkham House, 1943.
• The Dreams in the Witch-House Written January–February 28, 1932, published July 1933 in Weird Tales, 22, No. 1, 86–111
• The Dunwich Horror Written summer 1928, published April 1929 in Weird Tales, 13, No. 4, 481–508
• Herbert West—Reanimator Written September 1921–mid-1922, published February–July 1922 in Home Brew, 1, No. 1 (February 1922), 19–25; 1, No. 2 (March 1922), 45–50; 1, No. 3 (April 1922), 21–26; 1, No. 4 (May 1922), 53–58; 1, No. 5 (June 1922), 45–50; 1, No. 6 (July 1922), 57–62
• The Horror at Red Hook Written August 1–2, 1925, published January 1927 in Weird Tales, 9, No. 1, 59–73
• The Shadow Out of Time Written November 1934–March 1935, published June 1936 in Astounding Stories, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 110–154
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth Written November–December 3, 1931, published 1936 in The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co., 13–158
• The Shunned House Written October 16–19, 1924, published in The Shunned House, Athol, Ma: The Recluse Press, 1928, p. 9–59.
• The Whisperer in Darkness Written February 24–September 26, 1930, published August 1931 in Weird Tales, Vol. 18, No. 1, 32–73

Short Stories

• The Alchemist Written 1908, published November 1916 in The United Amateur, 16, No. 4, 53–57
• Azathoth Written June 1922, published 1938 in Leaves, 2, 107
• The Beast in the Cave Written April 21, 1905, published June 1918 in The Vagrant, No. 7 , 113–120
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep Written 1919, published October 1919 in Pine Cones, 1, No. 6, 2–10
• The Book (1934)
• The Call of Cthulhu Written summer 1926, published February 1928 in Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 159–178, 287
• The Cats of Ulthar Written June 15, 1920, published November 1920 in The Tryout, 6, No. 11, 3–9
• Celephaïs Written early November 1920, published May 1922 in The Rainbow, No. 2, 10–12
• Cool Air Written March 1926, published March 1928 in Tales of Magic and Mystery, 1, No. 4, 29–34
• Dagon Written July 1917, published November 1919 in The Vagrant, No. 11, 23–29
• The Descendant Written c. 1926, published 1938 in Leaves, 2, 107–110
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath Written December 3, 1919, published June 1920 in The Scot, No. 44, 90–98
• The Evil Clergyman Written 1937, published April 1939 in Weird Tales, 33, No. 4, 135–137
• Ex Oblivione Written 1920/1921, published March 1921 in The United Amateur, 20, No. 4, 59–60
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family Written 1920, published March 1921 in The Wolverine, No. 9, 3–11
• The Festival Written October 1923, published January 1925 in Weird Tales, 5, No. 1, 169–174
• From Beyond Written November 16, 1920, published June 1934 in The Fantasy Fan, 1, No. 10, 147–151, 160
• The Haunter of the Dark Written November 1935, published December 1936 in Weird Tales, Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–553
• The Haunted House Written 1902, unpublished, nonextant
• He Written August 11, 1925, published September 1926 in Weird Tales, 8, No. 3, 373–380
• History of the Necronomicon Written 1927, published 1938
• The Hound Written September 1922, published February 1924 in Weird Tales, 3, No. 2, 50–52, 78
• Hypnos Written March 1922, published May 1923 in The National Amateur, Vol. 45, No. 5, 1–3
• Ibid Written 1927/1928, published January 1938 in O-Wash-Ta-Nong, 3, No. 1
• In the Vault Written September 18, 1925, published November 1925 in The Tryout, 10, No. 6, 3–17
• John, The Detective Written 1902, unpublished, nonextant
• The Lurking Fear Written November 1922, published January–April 1923 in Home Brew, 2, No. 6 (January 1923), 4–10; 3, No. 1 (February 1923), 18–23; 3, No. 2 (March 1923), 31–37, 44, 48; 3, No. 3 (April 1923), 35–42
• The Little Glass Bottle Written c.1898-9, published 1959
• Memory Written 1919, published June 1919 in The United Co-operative, 1, No. 2, 8
• The Moon-Bog Written March 1921, published June 1926 in Weird Tales, 7, No. 6, 805–810
• The Music of Erich Zann Written December 1921, published March 1922 in The National Amateur, 44, No. 4, 38–40
• The Mysterious Ship Written 1902, Published 1959
• The Mystery of the Grave-Yard Written c.1898-9, published 1959, also known as "The Secret of the Grave"
• The Nameless City Written January 1921, published November 1921 in The Wolverine, No. 11, 3–15
• Nyarlathotep Written early December 1920, published November 1920 in The United Amateur, 20, No. 2, 19–21
• The Noble Eavesdropper Written 1897, unpublished, nonextant
• Old Bugs Written c. July 1919
• The Other Gods Written August 14, 1921, published November 1933 in The Fantasy Fan, 1, No. 3, 35–38
• The Outsider Written 1921, published April 1926 in Weird Tales, 7, No. 4, 449–453
• Pickman's Model Written 1926, published October 1927 in Weird Tales, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 505–514
• The Picture Written 1902, unpublished, nonextant
• The Picture in the House Written December 12, 1920, published July 1919 in The National Amateur, 41, No. 6, 246–249
• Polaris Written c. May 1918, published December 1920 in The Philosopher, 1, No. 1 , 3–5
• The Quest of Iranon Written February 28, 1921, published July–August 1935 in The Galleon, 1, No. 5, 12–20
• The Rats in the Walls Written August–September 1923, published March 1924 in Weird Tales, 3, No. 3, 25–31
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Written 1917, published September 1917 in United Amateur
• The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure Written c.1898-9, published 1959
• The Silver Key Written 1926, published January 1929 in Weird Tales, 13, No. 1, 41–49, 144
• The Statement of Randolph Carter Written December 1919, published May 1920 in The Vagrant, No. 13, 41–48
• The Strange High House in the Mist Written November 9, 1926, published October 1931 in Weird Tales, 18, No. 3, 394–400
• The Street Written c. 1920, published December 1920 in The Wolverine, No. 8, 2–12
• Sweet Ermengarde Published 1917
• The Temple Written 1920, published September 1925 in Weird Tales, 6, No. 3, 329–336, 429–431
• The Terrible Old Man Written January 28, 1920, published July 1921 in The Tryout, 7, No. 4, 10–14
• The Thing on the Doorstep Written August 21–24, 1933, published January 1937 in Weird Tales, 29, No. 1, 52–70
• The Tomb Written June 1917, published March 1922 in The Vagrant, No. 14, 50–64
• The Transition of Juan Romero Written September 16, 1919, published in Marginalia. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1944, 276–284
• The Tree Written 1920, published October 1921 in The Tryout, 7, No. 7, 3–10
• The Unnamable Written September 1923, published July 1925 in Weird Tales, 6, No. 1, 78–82
• The Very Old Folk Written November 2, 1927, published summer 1940 in Scienti-Snaps, 3, No. 3
• What the Moon Brings Written June 5, 1922, published May 1923 in The National Amateur, 45, No. 5, 9
• The White Ship Written November 1919, published November 1919 in The United Amateur, 19, No. 2, 30–33

Collaborations and Revisions

• The Battle That Ended the Century With R.H. Barlow, written June 1934
• Bothon With Henry S. Whitehead
• The Challenge from Beyond With C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long, written August 1935
• Collapsing Cosmoses With R.H. Barlow, written June 1935
• The Crawling Chaos With Winifred V. Jackson, written 1920–21, published in The United Co-operative, April 1921, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 1–6
• The Curse of Yig With Zealia Bishop, written 1928, published November 1929 in Weird Tales, 14, No. 5, 625–36
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer With William Lumley, written October 1935, published February 1938 in Weird Tales, 31, No. 2, 152–66
• The Disinterment With Duane W. Rimel, written 1935, published summer 1935 in The Californian, 3, No. 1, 3–7
• The Electric Executioner With Adolphe de Castro, written c. 1929, published August 1930 in Weird Tales, 16, No. 2, 233–236
• Four O'Clock With Sonia Greene, written 1922, published 1922
• The Green Meadow With Winifred V. Jackson, written 1918/1919, published spring 1927 in The Vagrant, 188–195
• The Hoard of The Wizarrd-Beast With R. H. Barlow
• The Horror at Martin's Beach With Sonia H. Greene, written June 1922, published November 1923 in Weird Tales, 2, No. 4, 75–76, 83
• The Horror in the Burying-Ground With Hazel Heald, written 1933–1935, published May 1937 in Weird Tales, 29, No. 5, 596–606
• The Horror in the Museum With Hazel Heald, written October 1932, published July 1933 in Weird Tales, 22, No. 1, 49–68
• In the Walls of Eryx With Kenneth Sterling, written January 1936, published October 1939 in Weird Tales, 34, No. 4, 50–68
• The Last Test With Adolphe de Castro, written 1927, published November 1928 in Weird Tales, Volume 12, No. 5, 625–56
• The Man of Stone With Hazel Heald, written 1932, published October 1932 in Wonder Stories, Volume 4, No. 5, 440–45, 470
• Medusa's Coil With Zealia Bishop, written May 1930, published January 1939 in Weird Tales, 33, No. 1, 26–53
• The Mound With Zealia Bishop, written December 1929–early 1930, published November 1940 in Weird Tales, 35, No. 6, 98–120
• The Night Ocean With R.H. Barlow, written c. 1935, published winter 1936 in The Californian, 4, No. 3, 41–56
• Out of the Aeons With Hazel Heald, written 1933, published April 1935 in Weird Tales, 25, No. 4, 478–496
• Poetry and the Gods With Anna Helen Crofts, written 1920, published in The United Amateur, September 1920, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1–4
• The Slaying of the Monster With R. H. Barlow
• The Sorcery of Aphlar With Duane W. Rimel
• The Thing in the Moonlight With J. Chapman Miske, written November 24, 1927, published January 1941 in Bizarre
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key With E. Hoffmann Price, written October 1932–April 1933, published July 1934 in Weird Tales, 24, No. 1, 60–85
• Till A' the Seas With R.H. Barlow, written January 1935, published summer 1935 in The Californian, 3, No. 1, 3–7
• The Trap With Henry S. Whitehead, written late 1931, published March 1932 in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, 2, No. 1, 73–88
• The Tree on the Hill With Duane W. Rimel, written May 1934, published September 1940 in Polaris, 4–11
• Two Black Bottles With Wilfred Blanch Talman, written July–October 1926, published August 1927 in Weird Tales, 10, No. 2, 251–58
• Under the Pyramids (also known as "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs") With Harry Houdini, written February–March 1924, published May 1924 in Weird Tales
• Winged Death With Hazel Heald, written 1933, published March 1934 in Weird Tales, 23, No. 3, 299–315

Posthumous Collaborations with August Derleth

• The Ancestor
• The Dark Brotherhood
• The Fisherman of Falcon Point
• The Gable Window
• The Horror from the Middle Span
• Innsmouth Clay
• The Lamp of Alhazred
• The Lurker at the Threshold
• The Peabody Heritage
• The Shadow in the Attic
• The Shadow Out of Space
• The Shuttered Room
• The Survivor
• The Watchers Out of Time
• Wentworth's Day
• Witches' Hollow

Poetry

• A Cycle of Verse
• Alfredo; A Tragedy
• An American to Mother England Published January 1916
• Astrophobos Published c. November 25, 1917
• The Ancient Track Published March 1930
• Bells
• Bouts Rimés
• The Bride of the Sea Published c. September 30, 1915
• The Cats Published February 15, 1925
• Christmas Blessings
• Christmastide Published November 1920
• The City Published October 1919
• The Conscript
• C.S.A. 1861-1865: To the Starry Cross of the South
• Despair Published c. February 19, 1919
• De Triumpho Naturae
• The Eidolon
• The Elder Pharos Published February 1931
• Fact and Fancy Published February 1917
• Festival
• Fungi from Yuggoth Written 1929–1930
• The Garden
• Good Saint Nick
• Hallowe'en in a Suburb Published March 1926
• H. Lovecraft's Attempted Journey betwixt Providence & Fall River on the N.Y.N.H & H.R.R
• The House
• In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Poe Once Walk'd
• Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee Published c. May 18, 1916
• Laeta; a Lament Published February 1918
• Life's Mystery
• Little Tiger
• The Messenger
• Nathicana Published Spring 1927
• Nemesis Published November 1, 1917
• Night-Gaunts
• The Nightmare Lake
• Ode for July Fourth, 1917 Published July 1917
• On Ambrose Bierce
• On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder Published March 1920
• On Receiving a Picture of Swans Published c. September 14, 1915
• On the Creation of Niggers
• On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams
• The Outpost
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Pacifist War Song - 1917 Published March 1917
• The Peace Advocate
• The Poe-ets Nightmare
• Poemata Minora, Volume II Published September 1902
• The Poem of Ulysses, or The Odyssey
• Poetry Fragments of HP Lovecraft
• Primavera
• Providence Written May 1924, published September 26, 1924
• Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
• The Rose of England
• Revelation Published March 1919
• The Rutted Road
• Sunset Published May 1918
• To A Dreamer
• To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., Upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures
• To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkelt, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
• Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God"
• Tosh Bosh
• To the Late John H. Fowler Esq.
• The Unknown
• Waste Paper
• Where Once Poe Walked
• With a Copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales
• The Wood

Essays

• A Confession of Unfaith Published February 1922
• A Descant to Avernus Written Summer 1928, published Summer 1929
• The Allowable Rhyme Published October 1915
• At the Root Written 1918
• Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft Written early 1930's, published October 1941
• The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler published April 1919
• Cats and Dogs Written November 23, 1926
• Commercial Blurbs of HP Lovecraft June-July 1925, published Spring 1988
• Commonplace Book of HP Lovecraft Written early 1920-1935, published 1938
• The Despised Pastoral Published July 1918
• Diary of HP Lovecraft: 1925 Written 1925-6, published 2006
• Diary of HP Lovecraft: 1937 Written January-March 1937, published 1987
• In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead Written March 1933
• In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard Written September 1936
• Metrical Regularity July 1915
• Notes on Hudson Valley History Written late 1930, published 2006
• Notes on Writing Weird Fiction Written in 1933, published in the June 1937 issue of the Amateur Correspondent
• Observations on Several Parts of America Written Summer 1928, published 1944
• Sleepy Hollow To-day Written Summer 1928, published 1930
• Some Notes on a Nonentity Written November 23, 1933, published 1943
• Supernatural Horror in Literature Written late 1925–summer 1927, published 1927
• The Trip of Theobald Written Summer 1927, published September 1927
• Vermont-A First Impression Written 29 September 1927, March 1928

Letters

• Correspondence between R. H Barrow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama-Sept.-Nov. 1932 Written Spring 1936, published Fall 1986
• Letter to August Derleth, December 11, 1919
• Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, November 27, 1927

Legal Documents

• Instructions in Case of Decrease by HP Lovecraft Written late 1936 or early 1937, published Fall 1985
• Will of H.P. Lovecraft, August 12, 1912
• Will of Annie Gamwell, January 10, 1940
• Letter from Ethel. P. Morrish & Edna W. Lewis to August Derleth & Donald Wandrei, May 2, 1941

Copyrights

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1937, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they are legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. For Class A renewals records (books only) published between 1923 and 1963, check the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Rutgers copyright renewal records. For other renewal records of publications between 1922 - 1950 see the Pennsylvania copyright records scans. For all records since 1978, search the U.S. Copyright Office records. It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation. The author died in 1937, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

• For The Call of Cthulhu, the relevant records are in the years 1953, 1954 and 1955.

• According to S.T. Joshi's "H.P. Lovecraft: A Life" (pp. 640-641): Much of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain. This is unquestionably so in terms of the tales, essays, and poems published in the amateur press. As for stories published in "Weird Tales", the six that the magazine owned outright should have had their copyrights renewed after twenty-eight years, but repeated searches in the Library of Congress have turned up no renewals of any kind. Of the stories Lovecraft himself controlled, by law only he, his heirs, or his executor could have renewed the rights, but this was never done.

• Chris Karr has reviewed these documents and has published a report of his findings at http://www.aetherial.net/personal/files/lovecraft_renewals.pdf . In short, there are no copyright records that reference any of Lovecraft's original stories (only the Arkham House compilations), but the copyrights to "Weird Tales" were renewed properly, and works published prior to 1926 (when Lovecraft is thought to have sold full rights to "Weird Tales") in that magazine may be subject to protection IF they were published in "Weird Tales" for the first time. Joshi identifies thirteen works and believes that seven of those thirteen had been published elsewhere previously.